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what do you want to be when you grow up?

topic posted Sat, December 17, 2005 - 3:55 PM by  offlineZymirrah 		Share/Save/Bookmark
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hmmm..... ideal'leeeee
peaceful, talented, calm, confident, goofy, kind, more observant...

i believe i'm well on my way to being that person....


oops... and tall. i'd like to be tall'er...
5 foot 3 and a 1/2 inches here....
what can be done 'bout dat?
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  • Mich...
    Michelle
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    Re: what do you want to be when you grow up?

    Sat, December 17, 2005 - 4:01 PM
    i hear doctors can now strech you out, although the procedure is painful. and be grateful for those three inches! I'm 5" even. Miss Kihara herself will tower over me when i meet her.

    But what do I want to be when I grow up?

    Smarter, faster, more talented. But I hear all those things just go the other direction with age!
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    Cassandra
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    Re: what do you want to be when you grow up?

    Sat, December 17, 2005 - 4:05 PM
    -oops... and tall. i'd like to be tall'er...
    5 foot 3 and a 1/2 inches here....
    what can be done 'bout dat?-

    We'll get the oompa loompas to take you to the taffy stretching room...
    although 5'3" 1/2 sounds fine to me.

    When I grow up I want to be a farmer. Or a midwife. And I can't wait to be a grandma. I'd like to one of those calm, knowing women that I've always looked up to.
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  • Prin...
    Princess Judy
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    Sun, December 18, 2005 - 2:13 AM
    When I grow up I want to be a children's book writer, a flamenco percussionist and a professional dancer (I'm NOT going to say a BDSS). Two of them I already am, heheh...
    For the other one... Give me a couple of more years...

    I guess I just want to excel in all of the things I'm already doing.
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  • Aman...
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    Sun, December 18, 2005 - 4:57 AM
    i want to be in the position that most of the belly dancer superstars are, and some dancers that arn't. I want to be a famous belly dancer, i want to do workshops across the world, and country. i want to be recognized, i want to be unquestionably good. i want to have a studio. i want to make my own costumes. If i keep putting the work in that i am now, i believe i'll get there if its really want i continue to want. I'm only 18 and i've only been dancing for 2 years technically. I just stated dancing at a Restuarant where Domba dances and Ava Fleming dance. I feel so honored to put myself in their precense. I think right now Ava Fleming is my Role Model, and my idle, haha. I hope one day i'll have the ability, technique, and skills she does.
    Over all, i want to be a good person. I dont want to look in the mirror in 20 years and have regrets. I want to live my life to its fullest but never loose who i am or what i believe in on the way.
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    • Sabrina
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      Sun, December 18, 2005 - 6:41 AM
      Good post!
      I feel the same way. I'm about to graduate from college in May with a degree in English Literature. I can't say I'm very excited about finishing. I mean, I'm glad I won't have to do homework or papers (but I'm still considering graduate school) but it feels like the noose is tightening around my neck, like I have to hurry up and choose and jump into the workforce.
      I just really don't want to do that.

      I think I'm kind of unemployable. I'm not confrontational or rude or anything, but a lot of times (especially in a corporate setting) you get these micro-manager bosses that just ask you to do stupid completely assinine things, especially when you're up to ass in work.
      I can't help but question the logic of why - if Fed Ex doesn't pick up until 5 WHY do I have to print this label up at 9 am so you don't get pissed at me, or WHY do I have to put these black box files together for accounting right this minute when I am swamped yet they are just sitting there doing nothing.

      I'm considering teaching but don't know - I see pros and cons with teaching high school English, especially in our abysmally shitty school system.
      I just don't want ot get stuck doing something miserable - then next thing I know my life has passed me by and I haven't done any of the things I wanted to do.

      It scares the shit out of me, frankly. I would love to make something out of my passion for bellydance, but I cannot at my current level of experience or my current weight - no fitness club or restaurant is going to hire someone my size. So it's motivating me to lose weight but that's going to take some time.
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      • natalie
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        Sun, December 18, 2005 - 7:08 AM
        Hugs to a fellow English major! I got out about three years ago in the middle of the recession and the absolute worst year for graduating undergrads EVER. I worked a lot of odd jobs and tried to make the rest of my life as happy as possible, including bellydance and walks and good dinners and friends and fun.

        I'm currently working as a paralegal. Not incredibly exciting, but the pay and atmosphere is good, and it helped me and the boy get on our feet pretty quickly after the hurricane (I actually met the lawyer that ended up hiring me at a red cross shelter where she was volunteering). Not what I want to do with my life, but it's buying me time and giving me the money to take workshops, have a dance room, start teaching in my new home (though that took off surprisingly early and it's not eating up as much money as I thought it would initially).

        So my advise: don't expect to get everything you want at first or at once. It's taken me a few years and I'm still not in my dream job (whatever that is), but I'm making baby zigzag steps in kinda the direction I wanna go. You may not be able to do anything with bellydancing yet, but if you concentrate on it for another year or two on the side while you hold your nose working for the man, you will be able to.
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  • Kathryn
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    Sun, December 18, 2005 - 11:21 AM
    Hmmm. Well after 5 years of temping after graduating from unversity I finally have a job relevant to my degree! So in that way I am grown up. It doesn't pay well but then archaeology doesn't. I've also started going out with someone who's not a complete shit, so that's quite grown up as well. Now that I have a permanent job - steady predictable income, I will think about moving out again this year, which is also quite a grown up thing. I can't drive a car and I can't afford to (petrol in the UK is 3 times the price it is in America, plus car insurance is high, vehicle and road taxes are high, services cost money as do MOTs and the work you may have to do afterwards to make it roadworthy if it fails....) so I'm going to get my bike licence next year instead (cheaper to learn, cheaper to buy, cheaper to insure and cheaper taxes) to make me a bit more mobile.

    So I sort of am growing up, but I'm also still me.
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  • Maya
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    Sun, December 18, 2005 - 3:29 PM
    Well thankfully I'm doing what I want to be doing. That is working with animals again. I'm also going to get my degree in education so I can get a teachers position at my work. I'm basically a teacher without the title, money, and benefits. In my alternate universe I want to be a famous bellydancer. I've also thought about trying out for bellydance superstars. I'm probably going to do it just to see what they say (I highly doubt I'm good enough for that) but I want to just to say I did. Now if I get it they'll have to really sweeten the deal to get me to sacrifice my dream job. It really is a wonderful place to work. I get along with everyone and I like what I do. My boss is cool but unfortunately she'll be retiring in the next year or two. I worry about who my future boss will be.

    But the idea of travelling across the world and making a career out of belly dancing has my interest piqued.
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    christina
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    Re: what do you want to be when you grow up?

    Sun, December 18, 2005 - 7:31 PM
    professionally... i'd like to be a surgeon, but that requires my passing the exams tomorrow and magically finding a way to buy a car (and i have seriously tried everything short of selling my soul on ebay), and a part-time bellydancer (even if it means i only get to perform once in a while, i still want to perform - it is so addictive)

    aside from that, since i know that it is inevitable that i will grow up and really can't ignore it much longer... i want to be more comfortable in my own skin... i want to be brave enough to always just be myself... i want to be comfortable enough to be vulnerable but wary enough to be independent without letting either side dominate the person that i present to the rest of the world. i guess, in short, i'd like to figure out who i am... every time i start to think that i have, something happens and i have to re-evaluate and try again. i guess it's part of life to ask these questions and find different answers at different times... i've stuck with the one constant (becoming a doctor), enjoyed adding in the variables (bellydance!!! well, it's the only one that has stuck anyways), and i've done my best to keep up along the way. i guess i'll just have to see what happens from here on out.

    and you know, i would like to be taller... it would be nice to be able to find slacks and jeans that weren't too long, hehehe
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